File-drawer.



UNITED STATES PATENT oEEIoE.

LAU'RITS MQNIELSEN, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO AGNEW AUTO MAILING MACHINE COMPANY, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF MAINE.

` FILE-DRAWER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 9, 1907.

Application filed April 4, 1906. Serial No. 253,806

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LAURITS M. NIELSEN, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in File-Drawers; and I hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of lthe same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

This invention relates to improvements in file drawers and particularly to improvementsiin card le drawers adapted for the storage of address cards or forms.

One object of the invention is to so construct a file drawer that the cards or forms contained therein may be moved endwise of the drawer and through an opening with which one end ofthe drawer is provided.

Another object of the invention is to so construct a file drawer of this' nature that when said drawer is placed in the vertical position the cards, or forms, therein may be fed automatically downward through a suitable opening in the, in said position, lower end of the drawer.

Other objects of the invention will-appear from the following description. 4

The invention consists in the peculiar file drawer herein described.

The invention also consists in the novel follower for supporting and following the cards. y

The invention also consists in such other novel fea tures of construction and combination of parts as shall hereinafter be more fully described and pointed out in the claims.

Figure l, represents an end view of the improved file drawer. Fig 2, represents a cross sectional plan View of parts of the same'taken on line 2 2, Fig. l. Fig. 3, represents a longitudinal sectional view of portions of the improved drawer.

Similar numbers of reference designate corresponding parts throughout.

File drawers of this particular nature are designed for the storage of cards, address forms, or similar articles, which cards, address forms, etc., are to be removed from the drawer from time lto time for use in a machine, in which the special construction of the particular article adapts it for use. One of the features of the drawer being that construction whereby the automatic feeding of the articles towards and through an opening in one end of the drawer is made possible.

In carrying this invention into practice I construct a drawer, or drawer section, having inside dimensions capable of receiving the cards, address'forms, or other articles, in the upright position and having the sides 5 5, the bottom 6, preferably having the slot 7, the rear end 8 and the forward end frame 9 secured to the sides 5 5 between which and the ends 9 9 are formed the guide grooves 10 l0 in the lower` part of the frame 9 and in the end 8 is secured the rod Il which is preferably located in the slot 7, whereby it is beneath the inner surface of the bottom 6. i

In the guide grooves IO 10w is slidable the gate 12 having the thumb piece 13 and, preferably, furnished with the opening 14 through which the index o r guide form A can be viewed.

On the rod II is slidable the follower l5 having the perforated member 16, the perforation of which works freely on said rod when its walls are parallel to the extension of-the rod Il but which is designed to bind on the rod when the walls of its perforation are brought to a suitable angle with said rod, asby the swinging forward or backward of the upper end of this follower, this upper end portion of the follower being furnished with the projection 17 which is so proportioned to the direction of the perforation in the member 16 that, when the drawer is placed upright on the frame 9, said projection bearing on the rear card, or form, B the relation of said perforation with respect to the rod Il will be such that the follower l5 will follow the downward movement of the cards, or forms, and, in a degree, exert a pressure on said cards, or forms, to move them downward. When, however, the follower is crowded against the stencil cards, or forms, the projection I7 effects the forcing backward of the free end of the follower wherebythe\binding ofthe walls of the perforation on the rod Il is effected, thus the series of stencil cards may be clamped between the follower and the gate 12 and the file drawer may be handled and even reversed in position without permitting the dropping out of anyof the stencil cards.

.The drawer is adapted to be placed in a suitable machine, not a part of the present invention, through which the cards, or forms, are designed to be fed to a similar drawer; when the gate I2 is opened, the drawer resting on the end 9, the guide card A and the following cards B B move downward under their own weight and the pressure of the follower 15 and are fed through the machine into a similar drawer in which they arrange themselves in succession the inscription on the guide card appearing through the opening 14 in the gate l2 of said drawer.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. A file drawer having an opening in the end, 'and a gate for closing the opening, said gate having an openingl through which an index may be exposed to view.

2. A le drawer having'a longitudinal guide, and a i01- having the perforated member 1'6, adapted to slide 0x1 fhe l() lower mounted to slide upon said guide, when in the uprod 11, and the projection 17 at its upper end, as and for "right positionk and to bind on said guide when inclined the purpose described.

slightly from the sliding position, said follower having a In testimony whereof I ax my signature in presence of projection adapted to bear against the rear article in said two witnesses.

drawer to maintain the follower in the sliding position. LAURITS M. NIELSEN.

3. A file drawer having the open frame 9, and the guide Witnesses:

grooves 10-10, and the rod 11, and the gate 12 to slide in S. GoosTRAY,

the grooves l0-10," in, combination with the follower 15, HENRY .T MILLER. 

